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Alaska / Whale Hunting Ban / Shrinking Polar Ice Cap #701173

CBS Evening News for Friday, May 24, 2002
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The rejection by the International Whaling Commission of a request from the US to allow Alaskan Eskimos to hunt whales reported.

(Los Angeles: Jerry Bowen) The shrinking and thinning of the polar ice cap reported; amateur video shown from near Barrow, AK, of Inuit whale hunters being rescued from a broken ice pack. [WOMAN - describes how many people are trapped.] [Whaling captain John NUSEGUINIA - says he is lucky to see ice four feet thick.] [Via phone from the North Pole, University of Washington oceanographer James MORISON - says ice caps are 40 percent thinner due to faster ocean currents.]

Reporter(s):
Bowen, Jerry;
Rather, Dan
Duration:
00:02:30

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